See how your city's rebates stack up

How PowerScore is calculated

Every city gets a score from 0–100 in each of 8 categories, built entirely from the rebate numbers already published on each city's page — nothing here is estimated or invented.

• 60% Dollar value — the top rebate amount available in that category, in US dollars, compared with a common yardstick: the 90th-percentile amount across every city we cover (shown below). Matching the yardstick earns full marks.
• 25% Program status — Open programs get full credit, Funding Limited/Unclear programs get partial credit, and Closed or nonexistent programs get zero.
• 15% Stackability — how many distinct funding layers apply (federal, provincial/state, utility, municipal) — more layers that stack together score higher.

A city's overall PowerScore is the plain average of its 8 category scores. We recalculate this whenever the underlying city pages are updated with new rebate figures.

Est. Energy Cost is estimated average annual electricity + heating fuel cost for a 2,500 sq ft home, based on utility rate schedules and typical regional usage — not a quoted bill, and it plays no role in the PowerScore calculation above. Nova Scotia and Massachusetts show a range instead of a single figure because both regions have a significant share of oil-heated homes, which run meaningfully higher than gas or electric heat, alongside their other heating types. Figures marked with an asterisk (*) are approximated from a neighboring utility territory where a precise regional rate wasn't available.